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Made a big starter the night before. Plenty of yeasties the next day at pitching. Could've been lots of mutated "stressed" yeast though Ferment temp was air temp so yeah might be in low 80s by peak ferment. Did not rinse star San off. So sounds like that can be written off. Brewed at my...

So the chlorine thing rings a bell. This is in fact my first time using Star San to sanitize, could that be the culprit? I've traditionally just used One Step. I usually make sure most of the cleanser/sanitizer has dried or drained off before racking in any beer. Recipe - Partial Mash: Mashed...

Brewed up a saison a couple weekends back. Just bottled tonight and am trying to figure out where I may have gone wrong (I actually know one, see #2). I have two possible causes IMO, possibly both of them. 1) Stressed yeast from shipping (Yeast Bay Wallonian) during 90* week 2) Over flameout...

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Spider mites have crushed my cascades. Probably going to cut them down soon to keep them from getting on my Chinook.

Battling some mildew, leafhoppers and possibly some nutrient deficiency at the moment.

Have the Wallonian strain on its way this week to make a saison. I'm hoping it'll survive the hottest week on the east coast so far this year. Bad timing on my part.

Can't say enough great things about GLH. Ordered a Chinook crown, got a free Fuggles crown too, its humongous!

I'm in Fairfax County. Side arms coming out now, but another few weeks before I'll see cones starting. I'm also on a deck with buckets and only 6 hrs of direct light per day.

Is there an extract version of this somewhere in the 94 pages? I would love to give this a shot.

Here's what I used:

Could be the heat, the pots are only in the sun until about noon every day but its a dark colored pot.

I'm afraid I may have fried my marigolds and potentially my hops as well. I planted marigolds in the same pot with the Cascade. Literally in the last week or so my marigolds have disintegrated to nothing. Almost like the burned up. I figured this heat wave could've contributed to it, but have...

That second picture is definitely what those guys were. I haven't seen any more today since spraying the Neem and sliced them in half with my snips.

so further research suggests nymph stink bugs of the brown or green variety. any other ideas besides neem?

Any idea what these guys are? They look like baby stink bugs to me. Only on my hops which now have a massive explosion of mites due to the rain we've had. Blasted them with neem so hopefully that helps.

I was going to start my dry hop schedule on Thursday, so I'll recheck the gravity then and go from there.

It's S-05, see above I quoted myself. Yeah, I have real trouble with temp control in the summer. In the winter my foyer stays nice and cool, but summertime low 70's in the best I can do.

Took a sample today to measure the SG. Looks to be 1.020 after 8 days. This should be much lower if its been averaging a 70-72* fermentation temp right? Can I gently shake the yeast up to see if they'll finish drying this guy out? Or do I need to pitch more yeast? It tastes pretty great...

Tried my extract version I brewed back in January last night. All the dry hop and bitterness was gone. It was like a dark lite ale. gotta drink this guy early.